Hey, (apologies for the top-post)
Am excited about this thread and it's great to see an official 'blessing' from you, Stephen, for an integration of Django-Rest-Framework into Mezzanine. I've been playing around a lot with DRF recently and am really excited by it. I wish I had the time to be able to commit to doing this, but realistically, 'real work' will probably over-run me :/ -- I'd definitely be happy to lend a hand any way I can if someone starts a branch or so for this. I think the approach of first creating a REST API is probably a good one, and DRF as a Rest frame-work has blown my mind of late and Mezzanine + DRF seems like a really exciting thing. Once the API piece is in, I think there can be a lot of debate of how much integration with a specific front-end framework Mezzanine should provide and to what extend (a full CRUD, just the front-end? how customizable will it be, etc.), but I think if Mezzanine provides a robust REST API, third party packages with integration at various levels with various front-end JS / Single-Page-App frameworks would be possible to build and it would be fun to see what the ecosystem throws up. What's the best way to go ahead with this? Is there anyone willing to take the lead on this? I, unfortunately, haven't played with Mezzanine in a while, but I can try doing a code checkout and refreshing myself over the next few days and throw up some thoughts about how this maybe structured - I've found DRF to be a real pleasure to use and on the surface, it seems like it should be fairly straightforward to get it to work with Mezzanine - will take a better look at the Mezzanine code though, I was very impressed by it a year or so ago, but haven't had the opportunity to use it in a real-world project yet. Do let me know if I can lend a hand with anything, with the disclaimer that this really excites me, but that 'real work' may ambush my best intentions, so I don't want to commit to things I may not be able to finish. Thanks again, Stephen - it's been quite awesome to be on this list and follow conversations - have learnt a lot. -Sanjay On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Stephen McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Niels Jakob Buch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Guys, I can only confirm that the time is mature for a mezzanine rest >> framework and some goodies for more advanced UI. >> >> I am crossing my fingers that some of you cool dudes will grab your balls >> and start creating something nice. > > > > It's a subtle faux pas when we imply everyone here is male (I constantly > have to stop myself from using "guys" when I mean "all'), but it crosses the > line when we add crotch grabbing on top of that. I'm sure your intentions > are harmless, but I just wanted to point out comments like this aren't > welcome on the mailing list. > > Thanks. > > >> >> >> Full support from here! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mezzanine Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- > Stephen McDonald > http://jupo.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
